Translations for „wishful“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

wishful thinking [ˈwɪʃfl] N

to be wishful thinking

принима́ть [или выдава́ть] жела́емое за действи́тельное

Usage examples with wishful

to be wishful thinking

принима́ть [или выдава́ть] жела́емое за действи́тельное

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English

Furthermore, the research showed wishful identification with parasocial relationships, namely, that boys preferred intelligence, while girls preferred attractiveness when picking favorite characters.

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Motivational explanations involve an effect of desire on belief, sometimes called wishful thinking.

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As invoked in everyday life, the law usually reflects bad statistics or wishful thinking rather than any mathematical principle.

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The idea is controversial within the scientific community, coming under fire for bad anatomical science or simply wishful thinking.

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Finally, wishful thinking can arise at a higher stage of cognitive processing, such as when forming a response to the cue and inserting bias.

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The phenomenon of wishful seeing implicates cognitive penetrability in the perceptual experience.

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The essence of wishful identification is media users desire, but imitation is not about peoples expectations, but modeling, either for identity or for behavior.

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Colloquially, however, it can also be used for a wishful second person imperative.

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The main reason for these expectations was bad information that fed wishful thinking.

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The word is combined with "suanpan" abacus in the expression "ruyi suanpan" wishful thinking; smug calculations.

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